It is openly acknowledged by our Treaty of Waitangi historians
and experts that the final English draft of the treaty, which provided the
text for the Maori translation, went missing in February 1840. From historical
references, we know that this document was written by British Resident,
James Busby. Captain William Hobson handed the final draft to Reverend Henry
Williams at 4 p.m. on the 4th of February 1840 for translation into Te
Tiriti O Waitangi.

In mid-March 1989 an English language version of the Treaty
of Waitangi was found in Pukekohe, South Auckland, when members of the Littlewood
family were sorting out the estate of their recently deceased mother. This
old sheet of paper has, subsequently, been identified to be in the handwriting
of British Resident, James Busby by New Zealands leading handwriting
expert of documents from the early colonial era, Dr. Phil Parkinson of the
Alexander Turnbull Library.

An astounding feature of this newly found document is
that it is dated the 4th of February 1840. It is also written on
very old paper, bearing a W. Tucker 1833 watermark.

The document has an impeccable pedigree back to 1840s
solicitor Henry Littlewood of the Bay of Islands and Auckland. By
the 1850s, at least, James Reddy Clendon, Police Magistrate,
was using Littlewoods legal services for conveyancy work and this
seems to explain how Littlewood gained possession of the final English draft
of the treaty. Clendon had been loaned the final draft original by Lieutenant
Governor William Hobson, upon official request to the Colonial Secretary.
It had been forwarded to him, in his capacity as U.S. Consul, between the
6th and 18th of March 1840 and seems to have remained in his possession
permanently, thereafter, until lodged with his solicitor, Henry Littlewood.

Compelling evidence shows that James Reddy Clendon was in
attendance when the final English draft of the Treaty of Waitangi was completed
by Busby under Hobsons direction and that the final drafting session
of the 4th of February 1840 took place at Clendons Okiato home near
Kororareka. Further evidence suggests that, at the same time, Clendon made
his own transcribed duplicate of this finalised English text, again on W.
Tucker 1833 paper, which he later forwarded as Despatch No. 6
to the U.S. Secretary of State on the 20th of February 1840.

On the 5th of April 1840, American Antarctic explorer,
Commodore Charles Wilkes also sent this selfsame English version
of the treaty in his Despatch no. 64 to the U.S. Secretary of State.
Wilkes, officially, requested that U.S. Consul J.R. Clendon supply him with
treaty related materials for despatch, after arriving at the Bay of Islands
on the 29th of March 1840. A copy of the final English draft of the Treaty
of Waitangi, complete with Busbys spelling mistakes, was transcribed
for or by Wilkes directly from Busbys original (the Littlewood Treaty).
Clendon supplied the document to Wilkes on April 3rd 1840 and a transcribed
copy was despatched to the United States two days later, with yet another
copy being recorded in the U.S.S Vincennes letter book.

Whereas our National Archives, in conjunction with Auckland
Institute & Museum, seem to have retained all of the English draft notes
of the treaty, written up until the 3rd of February 1840, there is no single
body of text within those rough notes that could be defined as a final
draft. The document that has come to be known as the Littlewood
Treaty is, singularly and uniquely, the only complete body
of text, incorporating a Preamble, Articles I, II, III and Affirmation
section, fitting all of the expected final English draft
criteria. Hobson and the other legislators who assisted him had an absolute
obligation to supply the translators with a complete body of text, such
that there would be no ambiguity or confusion related to what had to be
translated and conveyed in the Maori tongue. The Littlewood documents
text mirrors the Maori translation text perfectly throughout, in terms of
the sequence of statements, word weight per sentence and the use of synonymous
words in each language. Under the strictest criteria one wishes to apply
scientifically, the Littlewood Treaty fits the expected profile of
the final English draft.

Despite promises to the Littlewood family in
1989 and the general public in 1992 that a full forensic analysis would
be undertaken by our experts to determine the pedigree and historical significance
of the Littlewood Treaty document, no such results have ever been
released to the public. This gross dereliction of duty requires
a full explanation from our authorities, especially in view of the fact
that traditional Treaty of Waitangi interpretations have undergone such
radical revision in the past three decades.

Rediscovery of Hobsons final English draft offered the
surprising and unexpected opportunity to fully clarify his intent at the
outset, as well as the true and actual substance of the unification agreement
he put in place between Maori chiefs and the British Crown on February
6th 1840.

In Article II of the Littlewood Treaty the rights spoken of
and enshrined by treaty are guaranteed to the chiefs and tribes
and to all the people of New Zealand. This is exactly what the
Maori Tiriti O Waitangi says: ki nga Rangitira ki nga hapu - ki
nga tangata katoa o Nu Tirani. The text, in both languages guarantees
equality for all the people of New Zealand, with no special
customary rights set aside, exclusively, for any one ethnic group. Under
both the Tiriti O Waitangi and the final English draft from which it was
derived, there is no provision for a partnership between Maori and the Crown
(Queen Victoria). There is only provision for the Maori chiefs to cede their
sovereignty to Queen Victoria, such that they and their people can become
British subjects and the recipients of British laws, protections and justice.

The Treaty of Waitangi version that is used in all of our
legislation today is based upon a composite English text, assembled
by Hobsons secretary, James Stuart Freeman, from the early rough notes
of the treaty. In the six months following the signing of the Treaty at
Waitangi, Freeman concocted a variety of Royal Style
versions, earmarked solely for overseas despatch. For these he did not consult
the final English draft, probably because it lacked the necessary pretentious
language, considered by him as befitting royalty or high stations within
foreign governments. Our present day treaty legislation is, therefore, wholly
based upon Busbys 3rd of Februaryrough draft, wherein
he forgot to mention the settlers or the rights of Ngati
Wikitoria (the family of Queen Victoria). In terms of the true treaty
wording, this oversight was fully corrected by Hobson, with the essential,
missing phrase added into the final English draft of the 4th of February
1840. The earlier forgotten text, ensuring settler rights equal
to Maori, was later incorporated into Te Tiriti O Waitangi by the
translators, Reverend Henry Williams and his son Edward.

Our legislators are knowingly using a rejected and discarded,
early rough draft treaty version when fashioning and interpreting our laws,
which was superseded by a final draft.

Deliberate distortions of the treatys meanings have,
since 1975, been the source of much aggravation, division and hardship for
the people of New Zealand. Social engineers, opportunists and political
activists, in collusion with their highly paid lawyers, have spun such a
web of legalese deceit around the treaty as to render its original intents
incomprehensible. Despite acting as the foundation document for positive,
unified progress in the century following its inception, our Treaty of Waitangi
has been lately hijacked by malevolents and reduced to a yoke of oppression
and formula for apartheid...something that its creators and signatories
never conceived it could ever become!

In actual fact, all that our legislators have ever had to
do since February 6th 1840 is consult the crystal-clear wording of the Maori
Tiriti O Waitangi for guidance when drafting laws and Acts of Parliament.
Most New Zealanders arent aware that the Maori text is benign and
benevolent to all. No exploitation of the general public is possible under
the friendly, all-encompassing, all-inclusive wording of its clauses, nor
does it legally relegate anyone to the status of a second class citizen,
bereft of any rights that are enjoyed by other New Zealanders. Unfortunately,
the Maori Tiriti O Waitangi is never used in any of our legislation.

Our true Treaty of Waitangi has been removed and supplanted
by a false treaty!